Actor Sam Neill has shared an update on his health battle after revealing he is living with blood cancer. 7NEWS
Neill has written candidly about his fight with cancer in his new book, Did I Ever Tell You This?, revealing he is still undergoing treatment and will do so for the rest of his life.
“And I’m used to working. I love working. I love going to work. I love being with people every day and enjoying human company and friendship and all these things.“I never had any intention to write a book. But as I went on and kept writing, I realised it was actually sort of giving me a reason to live and I would go to bed thinking, ‘I’ll write about that tomorrow ... that will entertain me.’
“I didn’t think I had a book in me, I just thought I’d write some stories. And I found it increasingly engrossing.”“The thing is, I’m crook. Possibly dying,” he wrote in chapter one.Neill revealed in a new memoir to be released soon that he is still undergoing treatment.Neill told The Guardian he received chemotherapy at first but moved on to a new drug when the initial treatment failed.Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma is a relatively rare cancer that develops in the lymphatic system.
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